Email June 17, 2015

Hello Family! This week was pretty awesome! Like you all remember, it was transfer week! So this is the first week with my new companion. HIs name is Elder Wilding. He's from Sugar City, Idaho, and he's super cool! We are very alike and we get along really well. It was really weird to see Elder Jones leave. We drove to the mission office five times in two days and then after the last time he was gone. Since he was the first companion I've been with who went home at the end of the companionship, it was weird to see that process happen. But it's all good, he's now in the land of eternal Pdays. Back to that mom who gave him life, haha. With all of our lessons last week, even though we couldn't really start proselyting until basically Thursday because we were figuring out the rest of transfer stuff Wednesday, we still had a good number of lessons. We had a couple lessons with a recent convert, please keep her in your prayers. She is struggling to come to church because of things that have happened between her and others at church and it has been really hard for her. We were able to have dinner and a lesson with an investigator and that was good! We set another baptismal date with her, farther out this time, July 11, and we have a plan with her to help her. Unlike before when we just invited her to do things and not constantly follow up. She's working with one of the members to read he Book of Mormon every day so it will be great! Please keep her in your prayers as well! She was really excited to announce her baptism in gospel principles class on Sunday, so that is super awesome! Things are starting to look good for her baptism already! A big shoutout goes to all of you who prayed that we would be able to meet up with one of our investigators again soon! It worked! Although our next meeting isn't until next week, we were finally able to get into her home and talk with her again. She is doing okay, just has had to be home watching her kids and can't come to church because she can't control all of her kids. It's not that she's bad at it, she's really good with her kids. Keep her in your prayers that we might be able to find a way to get her to church! We have been planning to go see a lot of former investigators and we stopped by to visit a family. The 15 or so year old daughter answered and said, "Oh hi, Elders." That took me off guard! The mom wasn't home and we don't think there is a father living there, but the daughter said that we could stop by after 6:30 to catch her home. So we were super excited! We got back that night to see them and we found a sticky note on the door saying that plans had changed, but hey at least they told us! We are going to try back again soon, please keep their family in your prayers that they will be open to listening again! One funny thing that happened last week was that I taught with a Sister Missionary! Now don't worry, it was totally appropriate haha. What happened was that our last mission leader conference (MLC) meeting happened before the transfer ended, but the zone meeting where we teach and announce everything from MLC didn't happen until after the transfers. But there was still one sister in the zone who had been to MLC last transfer since she had been to MLC, we decided together that we would give the two new missionaries half of the topic to study up on and we would present the other half together at zone meeting. So we did! It was so weird! But it was awesome! I don't know how many other missionaries get the chance to say they taught with a missionary of the opposite gender! Haha, but it was super cool. Her name is Sister Soliai and she's super awesome! She reminds me a lot of Mikayla, actually. She's Samoan, not Marshallese, but she is so much like Mikayla! She'll make a face or something and it'll make me think of Mikayla, it's super funny. But yeah, that was a really good experience! So many other amazing things happened is week too, but I don't enough time to cover it all. I never do! But things are going really well! Please continue to keep us missionaries in your prayers! We need all of the prayers we can get! Prayers really are so helpful because they are answered! You may not see it, but that's where the faith comes in. You've got more faith than you think you do! I promise you that! If you pray for someone else or even for yourself, that is an act of faith. And when we act in faith, Heavenly Father promises to bless us. I know this to be true. Go try it out for yourself! Go pray for someone this week and you will see the blessings of faith. I love you guys! Be safe and have a great week! The Lord loves you, this very day and always! Love, Elder Cevering